touch是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to put your hand or another part of your body lightly onto and off something or someone -- 碰，觸摸

  • That paint is wet - don't touch (it). 那塊油漆未乾——別碰（它）。

  • He touched the girl on the arm to get her attention. 他碰了碰女孩的胳膊來引起她的注意。

  • The boy touched the worm with (= using, in his hand) a twig. 小孩用小樹枝碰了碰蟲子。

  • figurative The setting sun touched the trees with red (= made them appear red for a short time). 落日的餘暉染紅了樹林。

• 1 (of two or more things) to be so close together that there is no space between; to be in contact -- （兩個或兩個以上的物品）接觸

  • He fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow. 他一頭倒在枕頭上便睡著了。

  • She pushed the two bookcases together until they touched/were touching. 她把兩個書櫃推到一起。

• 2 to harm someone, or use or damage something -- 傷害（某人）；使用（某物）；破壞（某物）

  • Please don't touch any of my stuff while I'm away. 我不在時候請不要碰我的東西。

• 3 (usually used in negative sentences) to eat or drink something -- 沾，吃，喝

  • They didn't touch any of the food we left for them. 我們留下來給他們的食物，他們一點也沒碰。

  • Honestly, I haven't touched a drop (= drunk any alcohol) all night. 老實說，我整晚滴酒未沾。

• 4 to influence someone or something emotionally, or cause feelings of sympathy in someone -- 觸動，感動

  • Tragedy touched their lives when their son was 16. 他們兒子16歲那年，他們的生活發生了悲劇。

  • The TV report about the children's work for charity touched thousands of people's hearts. 電視上報道的孩子們為慈善團體所做的事令成千上萬的人深受觸動。

• 5 (usually used in negative sentences) to have or reach the same standard (= level of quality) as someone or something -- （通常用於否定句）比得上

  • Her novels can't touch (= are not as good as) those of her sister. 她的小說不及她姐姐的好。

  • There's no one to touch him as an illustrator of children's books. 在為兒童讀物創作插圖方面，沒人畫得比他好。

• 6 a small amount -- 少許

  • "Would you like milk?" "Just a touch." 「你要牛奶嗎？」「只要一點。」

  • There was a touch of irony/humour in her voice. 她的話音中帶著點諷刺／幽默的意味。

  • I had a touch of flu/hay fever. 我得了輕度流感／枯草熱。

  • The speech had several comic touches. 這演講有幾分滑稽色彩。

  • Using a sailing ship as the company logo was a touch of genius (= a good/clever idea or action). 用大帆船作公司的標誌真是個天才的想法。

  • The flowers on the table provided the finishing touch. 桌上的花是最後一道點綴。

  • The weather has turned a touch too cold for my liking. 天氣變得有點涼，我不太喜歡。

• 7 the ability to know what something is like by feeling it with the fingers -- 觸覺

  • the sense of touch 觸覺

  • I found the right coin in the dark by touch. 我在黑暗中摸索著找对了硬幣。

  • The material was soft to the touch. 這塊布料摸起來很柔軟。

• 8 a quick, light movement of one thing, especially a hand, onto and off another thing -- （尤指用手）觸摸，碰

  • I felt a cold touch on my arm. 我覺得有甚麼冰涼的東西碰到了我的胳膊。

  • At a/the touch of a button, the door opened. 一碰按鈕，門就開了。

• 9 to communicate or continue to communicate with someone by using a phone or writing to them -- 有／取得／保持（等等）聯繫

  • Are you still in touch with any of your old school friends? 你還和以前學生時代的老朋友有聯繫嗎？

  • Jen and I never kept in touch after college. 我和簡大學畢業後就沒有聯繫過。

  • We're in close touch with our office in Spain. 我們與西班牙的辦事處有密切聯繫。

  • We lost touch over the years. 我們這些年失去了聯繫。

• 10 an ability to do things in the stated, especially positive, way -- 特長；才能

  • He has a deft touch with tricky painting jobs. 他很善於做複雜的油漆活。

  • She gave the job her own special/magic/professional/personal touch. 這項工作展現了她獨特／神奇／專業／個人的才能。

  • I admire her lightness/sureness of touch as a cook. 我欣賞她做廚師的精細／踏實勁頭。

  • He used to be a good writer but I think he's losing his touch. 他曾經是個好作家，但我覺得他的創作能力正在下降。

• 11 in sports such as football, a player's ability to control the ball and make it do what they want, or an occasion when a player controls the ball with their foot -- （足球等體育中）觸球能力；觸球

  • Nicolas Anelka squandered the chance to score when his touch let him down in front of goal. 尼古拉·安內爾卡在球門前觸球不當，浪費了一次進球機會。

  • Hazard took several touches before crossing. 哈紮德觸了好幾次球之後把球傳中。

• 12 the area outside either of the long edges of the space on which football and rugby are played -- （足球及類似體育運動的）邊線以外區域

  • Playing for safety, he kicked the ball into touch. 為了安全起見，他把球踢出界外。

• 13 If you are in touch/out of touch with a subject, activity, or situation, your knowledge about it is recent/not recent. -- 瞭解／不瞭解最新情況

  • He's not really in touch with what young people are interested in. 他並不真正瞭解年輕人現在對甚麼感興趣。

  • I didn't see any news all the time I was on holiday, so I'm completely out of touch. 我在渡假期間一直都沒有看新聞，所以現在對外界一無所知。